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Cotesia spuria
(Wesmael, 1837)
Overview
Taxonomy
Description
Biology
A gregarious endoparasitoid. Known to emerge from host larva/nymph.
there are
98 host records
.
The recorded parasitoids are
Acrolyta marginata
, Acrolyta pseudonens,
Bathythrix aerea
,
Diaglyptidea conformis
,
Gelis agilis
,
Gelis discedens
, Gelis intermedius,
Lysibia nana
,
Mesochorus angustatus
,
Mesochorus discitergus
,
Mesochorus pictilis
and
Tetrastichus sinope
.
Distribution
Known from the Palaearctic realm with records from
44 countries and regions
.
Accepted name
Cotesia spuria
(Wesmael, 1837)
Original name
Microgaster spurius
Taxonomic level
species
Combination history
Apanteles
Cotesia
Microgaster
Synonyms
Cotesia insidens
Ex synonyms
Microgaster pieridis
Type
Institut Royal des Naturelles de Belqique
, Bruxelles, Belgium (female, lectotype)
This text has been automatically generated based on data from Taxapad (Yu et. al, 2016) and may contain errors or incoplete information.
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References
Yu, D.S.K., van Achterberg, C. & Horstmann, K. 2016. Taxapad 2016, Ichneumonoidea 2015 (Biological and taxonomical information), Taxapad Interactive Catalogue Database on flashdrive. Nepean, Ottawa.
